2 Sentenced To Death

February 3, 1987

TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Bob Martinez signed his first death warrants Monday in the cases of convicted killers Levis L. Aldridge and William M. White.

Superintendent Tom Barton scheduled the executions for 7 a.m. March 18. If the executions are carried out as scheduled, it would be the first time in 10 months a Death Row inmate died in the state`s electric chair.

Aldridge, 48, also known as Leon Aldrich, was convicted of first-degree murder in the September 1974 shotgun slaying of a Fort Pierce restaurant manager, Robert C. Ward. The victim`s body was found outside Di Vagno`s restaurant, which had been robbed of its Labor Day proceeds.

White, 41, a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Gang, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1978 stabbing of Gracie Mae Crawford of Orlando.